News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Anna Ngo, 57, of Portland, was sentenced today to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay nearly $500,000 in restitution for a tax evasion scheme involving two local businesses. Ngo previously pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion in violation of 26 U.S.C. §7201 on Dec. 14, 2017.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: How well can you tell facts from fiction on social media? How about in a crisis?
By DOE Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: Last week, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management (LM) contractor employee Jody Waugh served as a guest instructor at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona. He presented lectures on plants, climate, ecology, and environmental sampling and monitoring. He also led a seminar and an environmental science field trip to LM’s Monticello, Utah, site.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Orange, Virginia, man today admitted possessing videos of child sexual abuse while imprisoned at Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix for previous offenses involving the possession and distribution of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: A new stable fly trap, now on the market, catches more flies than the standard trap, according to a recent Agricultural Research Service (ARS) study.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: SAN JOSE- Gregory Belcher was sentenced today to 12 months and a day in prison for making a false statement related to a health care benefits program, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A federal grand jury has charged Taylor Vanderploeg, 20, of the 700 block of West California, Urbana, Ill., with receipt and possession of child pornography. The two-count indictment, returned today, alleges that on or about Dec. 24, 2017, Vanderploeg received visual depictions of...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Colorado man pleaded guilty Monday to robbing a bank in Manhattan, Kan., U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Federal prosecutors have charged a Shelby County woman on multiple counts of wire fraud for stealing from the Bessemer company where she had worked as a bookkeeper, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, Edwin Amaya-Sanchez (“Strong"), a member of the Guanacos Little Cycos Salvatruchas clique of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the MS-13, a transnational criminal organization, pleaded guilty to firearms-related murder charges in connection...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANDRE REED, 25, of Waterbury, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to one count of distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: Investigators Ask for Information from any Additional Victims.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: ST. GEORGE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Arizona Strip Field Office is encouraging public comments on the R H B Dixie Bell Mine Environmental Assessment (EA), known locally as the “Glitter Mine," with the 30-day public comment period ending May 4, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Leandro Nazario, age 39, currently in Adams County Correctional Complex, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on April 2, 2018, to 20 years’ imprisonment and five-years supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, for conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine in Lebanon County.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A New Orleans, Louisiana-area woman pleaded guilty today for her participation in a scheme to obtain oxycodone through fraud by creating fictitious prescriptions and to possess with intent to distribute oxycodone on the black market.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 24-year-old Houston woman has been ordered to prison for the armed robbery of two auto parts stores in the Houston area, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Latoya Taylor pleaded guilty Dec. 6, 2017, to two counts of interference with commerce by robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: FBI Warns the Public About Increase in Reports of Jury Duty Scams.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Antoinette Garcia, 45, of Bernalillo, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to committing federal program fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A March indictment unsealed today charges four people in connection to a $7.8 million health care fraud conspiracy at a Birmingham clinic, and charges that the husband and wife physicians who operated the clinic used it, in part, as a “pill mill.".
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Hassayampa Field Office has released a series of baseline studies as part of the development of the Environmental Assessment (EA) for the proposed pozzolan mine in Skull Valley, Ariz.
